The Participation Company
Reading up on the Knight Foundation’s Technology for Engagement Inititative as they’ve just announced their first round of five projects to receive funding, I came across Boston, MA-based Engagement Game Lab. From their mission statement: The Engagement Game Lab at Emerson College is devoted to forging a place for games in urban civic life. The [...]
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Well worth watching, another video on games and gaming (and fun, and emotion, and motivation etc.): Big Think Interview with Nicole Lazzaro: A conversation with the founder and president of XEODesign Nicole is a leading expert on emotion and fun in games. Her job over the past 20 years has been “to make games more [...]
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Jane McGonigal is a leading game designer and game researcher with an interest in public problem solving. I just learned about a new game she’s been working on and which I’ll write about shortly. As a preface to my upcoming post I wanted to briefly share this video of a talk she gave at the [...]
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I feel like sharing a few of the ideas that have accumulated on our wiki over the past couple or so years. Most of these are related to the hosted e-participation service we’ve been working on, and hopefully some will see the light of day very shortly. First, though, one general note on what has been [...]
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